Craig Adams

Saturday afternoon, Sidney Crosby walked on skates from the practice ice into the cramped visiting locker room at Capital One Arena and placed his black CCM stick into a rack, jiggling it until it fit. He navigated a horde of notebooks and cameras in front of his locker, sat down and pulled on a black Pittsburgh Penguins cap. At the end of a brief media scrum, a question - one he was perhaps more qualified to answer than anyone on the planet - made Crosby pause: Did he believe hockey instinct could be honed through repetition?

"Mmm," Crosby said. "Maybe."

He mulled his answer, a clue to how one of the greatest hockey players ever views the game. Crosby, 30,...

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